Fender.



R. M. HOOD.

FENDER.

'APPLICATION FILED JAN-25, 1913.

Patented Mar. 21; 1916.

Attorneys ROBERT M. HOOD, OF FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO AUSTIN R. MCELHANEY AND ONE-THIRD TO JOHN J. BAILES, BOTH OE FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.

FENDER.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed January 25, 1913. Serial No. 744,261.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that 1, ROBERT M. H001), a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Mill, in the'county of York and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Fender, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a fender adapted to be connected with the truck of a railway car or with any other portion of rolling stock of any description, the function of the device being to thrust outwardly, beyond the wheel, any object 'which may be located above the rail. Specifically, the device is of peculiar utlility for preventing the foot of a person from being caught between the wheel and the track.

The invention aims to provide a fender of this type which may be attached readily to railway rolling stock of standard constructions, without altering the form of the rolling stock and without employing connecting elements other than those commonly met with.

Another object of the invention is to provide a fender so constructed that its resiliency will render it peculiarly eiiicient.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and to increase the utility of, devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made with in the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing :F igure 1 shows, in side elevation, a truck equipped with a fender constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is an end-elevation showing the device applied; and Fig.3 is a perspective of the fender.

In the drawing, although the device may be variously mounted, the bearing boxes of a truck are shown and indicated by the numeral 1, the bearing boxes, as usual, supporting the axles 2 carrying the wheels 3.v A brace 4 is shown, the same, in the present instance, although not necessarily, being of diamond shape. The brace l rests upon a tie 5. The ends 6 of the brace 4 rest upon the upper surfaces of the bearing boxes 1 and the ends 7 of the tie 5 bear against the under faces of the boxes. Securing elements which may be bolt and nut structures 8 pass through the ends 6 of the brace 4 and through the ends 7 of the tie 5 to hold these elements, which constitutes a frame, upon the bearing boxes 1.

The fender herein disclosed is fashioned preferably from a single plate of resilient metal and is approximately of a common width from one end to the other. The fender comprises a body 9 which, adjacent one end is curved as shown at 10 to form a laterally extended deflecting lip 11. An ear 12 is formed integrally with the body 9 of the fender and is located at the upper edge of the body 9. the ear 12 having openings 14 through which the securing elements 8 pass, to bind the ear 12against the lower face of the end 7 of the tie 5, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. Ordinarily and'preferably one of the fenders hereinbefore set forth is employed in connection with each wheel of the truck although, obviously, upon a six wheeled truck, but four fenders need be used.

Special attention is directed to the fact that it is entirely unnecessary to change the structure of the truck in any degree. The securing elements 8, constituting apart of the truck, may be employed for holding the fender in place, and the fender itself is the only element which need be supplied.

Owing to the fact that the relatively long, resilient body 9 is interposed between the ear 1:2 and the deflecting lip 11, the fender will impose no severe shock upon the person or object which is encountered. However, the fender is not sufficiently resilient to nullify its effect. as a mean for forcing the object laterally with respect to the rail. The body 9 adjacent the lip 11 is plane and unencumbered upon its upper and lower edges, and is of a common width, so that the resiliency of the fender will not be impaired. Notronly may the fender bend resiliently parallel with the ear 12, but, because the ear 12 is secured to the upper edge of the fender, the body 9 may yield in a direction at right angles to the plane of the ear 12. Thus, the lower. edge of the fender will act yieldingly in forcing objects ofi The combination with a car truck, of

separate fenders connected to the respective ends of the truck, each fender including a flat'upstanding body extending along the outside of and vparallel with one of the Wheels of the truck and having oneend portion curved inwardly across the path of movement of the wheel and forming a defleeting lip, said lip being disposed diagonally across the path of the wheel and throughout the length of the lip whereby anobject contacting with any portion of the lip will be deflected outwardly away from Copies of this patent'may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner oflPatents,

standing vertically thereby to avoid a tripping action,' the upper and lower edges of the I lip' being horizontal andf parallel throughout the extent of the 11p, there being an outwardly extending ear upon the upper edge portion of the body adjacent that end of the body remote from the lip, said ear I being secured to the bottom of a portion of the sides of the truck being spaced apart. .In testimony; that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretolaflix my signature iii-the presence of two witnesses. V i V ROBERT M' HOOD.

Witnesses:

i FRANCES HARRIS,

T. B. SrRA'r'r.

Washington, D. C. p v t the truck, thebodies of the two fenders at 7 V v 

